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Collaboration keeps ageing wind farm in peak form
On the Thornton sandbank, 30 kilometres off the Belgian coast, 54 wind turbines spin in the North Sea breeze. Today, the 325 MW C-Power wind farm is one of nine offshore renewable energy installations...
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Lubrication management: the way to improve performance
Lubrication is critical to manufacturing, yet it is often treated as an afterthought – something so basic that it seems unworthy of anybody’s time. This is despite knowing that without lubrication,...
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A magic potion for machines
Magnus Kellström doesn’t let convention stand in the way of a good idea. You can tell that from his bicycle. Retired since 2005, he gets around his hometown on a recumbent two-wheeler, sitting back in...
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Head in the stars: under the dome of ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope
In the Atacama Desert in Chile, at an altitude of nearly 3,000 metres, an enormous construction is taking shape. ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), including the dome structure that encloses the...
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Insulating for success: protecting machines against failure
Bas Beishuizen, maintenance engineer at Saint-Gobain Isover. How can we stay comfortable at home and at work without heating up the atmosphere? Buildings are responsible for almost 40 percent of...
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Smart monitoring halves service need for maritime hotels
The tough maritime environment forced Floatel International to move its large hotel platforms into port every five years for extensive inspections and servicing. When SKF installed a system for...
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Unlocking progress
Large engineering structures dominate our modern landscape. Whether skyscrapers or a football stadium, they draw the viewer’s eye to their sheer immensity. “People see hundreds of thousands of cubic...
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Understanding and Mitigating Electric Discharge Damage in Electric Vehicle...
Amidst the global energy crisis and escalating concerns about global warming, electric vehicles (EVs) have gained significant attraction due to their heightened efficiency, power density and rapid...
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When precision is key
For the past seven years, Swedish musician Martin Molin has been working on a new musical instrument, something that he calls a “marble machine”, which is playable but is, he admits, completely...
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Forcing the shift towards renewables
Sustainability is a priority to most companies. In the pursuit of reducing their carbon footprint, some companies rely on offsetting or compensating for carbon emissions by strategies such as planting...
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Material insights: Case-carburized bearings undergoing standing contact loading
Optimal carburized case depth for bearing performance To enhance wear resistance and load-carrying capacity, the working contact surfaces of bearings undergo specific heat treatments. Depending on...
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Across the heavens
mtex antenna technology, a small company based in Germany, has been chosen to produce key components for a project that will combine hundreds of radio telescopes into the largest and most ambitious...
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A safe place to innovate
As chief technology officer and senior vice president, technology development, Annika Ölme is responsible for the SKF Group’s global research, technology development, product development and...
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Condition Monitoring with AI at Your Elbow
Karl Löwenmark, PhD student at Luleå University of Technology, begun his PhD project in 2020. Advanced condition monitoring technology has changed the way industrial companies manage and maintain...
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Boosting wind power with SKF condition monitoring
Rusmir Bajric, Lead Expert CMS at RWE, explains how the partnership with SKF is one of continual improvments. Wind power is on the rise and is an increasingly important part of the energy mix. In...
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Lubricating Greases: Unravelling the Mysteries of Their Remarkable Behaviour
The history of lubricating greases dates back more than 3,000 years, when ancient civilizations used materials such as mutton and beef fat as primitive axle greases. The modern era of grease...
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The next jet set
Electric aviation is taking off. Around the world, startups and established aerospace companies are pouring billions of dollars into entirely new categories of aircraft. Their technical concepts and...
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From theory to practice
Why do machines fail? It’s a fundamental question that has fascinated Guillermo Morales throughout a career that has taken him halfway around the world, to the highest levels of technical research and...
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SKF tribological black oxide coatings for improved energy efficiency of...
In a recent SKF study [1], three kinds of SKF conversion layers – zinc-calcium phosphate (ZnCaPh), manganese phosphate (MnPh) and SKF Tribological Black Oxide (TBO) were compared in terms of friction...
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The Ceramic Revolution
At the heart of this journey are hybrid bearings, which combine advanced ceramic materials with traditional steel components to deliver unmatched performance for high demand applications. Charlotte...
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